The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-21
SOME FUNNY PARROTS.
Providence Birds That Make II
Pleasant for PRssers.

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jokes worthy of the male. featherless
bped called man. There is q family
living near well"known stable that has
q fine bird. and he can talk as much as
an Italian, while his whistling powers
are great. 1t is the custom at the stable
near where this parrot lives, when
carriage is sent out and some directions
forgotten, TO give peculiar whistle to
call the driver back. This whistle the
parrot practced until he had it perfect
and then waited for his opportunity to
come when it could use it. A landau
was sent out, and the driver had settled
comfortably in his seat. and had gone
perhaps hundred yards. when the par
rot whistled. Pulling up his horses,
the driver turned and went back TO the
stable for additional directions. When
no asked. what he had been called back
for he was told that no one had called
him, that he must be mistaken, ETC., and
he started second time on his trip,
only to hear the whistle again. Being
sure this time he drove back again,
only to receive the same answers and
the laughter of tho stablemen. The
third time, however, he was on the look
out, and when the parrot whistled the
driver at once saw the trick, and after
roundly cursing the feathered joker,
drove on and finished his trip. This same
bird plays a joke on the family pug
about once day. The pug loves 10 60
out doors rs well as he does to eat, and
only needs an invitation to frantcally
wag his tail and run to the door. When
left In the room alone with the pug the
parrot would suddenly call out: Want
TO pc outp want to 60 out doorsP"
The dog will begin to wag his tail and
jump around, when the parrot would
drawl out in very derisive tone,
well you can't and then make the
room resound with series of ha, has.
A manufacturing jeweler has parrot
that hangs out in front OF the house
during the summer time, and about
every passer-by will be brought up short
by q shrill whistle from the bird. As
one stoops and looks around to see who
whistled the bird calls out in a very
gleeful tone; "Ha, ha. see him look"
and will repeat this as often as the vic
Tim turns until he is out of hearing.
A gentleman who has large, airy
office rooms, the rear windows from
which open on long she'd roof, has a
gray parrot that is an expert talker.
Not long ago the bird was summing him.
self on this roof when q strange cat
saw him and was seized with desire
to lunch on the bird. She began to
crawl along nearer and nearer 10 the
parrot, who calmly watched her with
great deal of interest, and was just
about to make the final spring and eat
the bird. when Mr.. Parrot cock
ed his head on one side, and
in an angry tone of voice ex-
clamed Scat, you brute!" One con-
tinuous line of black fur alone marked
the cats departure, while the parrot
chuckled on a string of ha, has as long
as a ten-pound string of sausages.
The cat will probably never try to catch
a bird again.
There was big gray parrot in club
room in the city that used to make a
good deal Of sport, but he was always
playing his tricks on his owner and his
assistant. WhenItwo or three card games
were going on in as many private
rooms the parrot would perch on one Of
the partitions between the rooms and
await his chance. If the proprietor,
who sat in the outside room to answer
calls for cards or chips happened to
shut his eye for moment. the parrot
would call out. STACK O. reds" Up
would jump the proprietor, get the
stack of red chips, and walk from one
room to another only to find that none
wanted the chips. He would make
some remarks that jokes were not
funny. and replace the chips. only to be
startled again in few minutes by cry
Of zone stack" This time the proprie-
Tor would probably indulge in profan-
ity, and this would apparently be just
what the bird wanted, for he would
joyously sing out Fooled yer, didn't
IP fooled yer, didn't ~"
There is a parrot in front Of Broad
street store that has probably as many
sins to answer for as most people, for
he has made more horse car drivers
swear than all the balky horses in the
business. He has peculiar whistle just
such as a man sounds when he wants
a car, and this he will sound at everv
horse-car that passes. The driver will
put on the brakes and stop his car with
jerk; but no passenger appears, and
then the bird gives himself away by
whistling again. The car moves on and
the driver curses.
A family going to the Vineyard few
summers ago took parrot with them.
as his owner was going away and could
not take care for him. The bird had